Inside Nature's Giants"Camel"
Mark Evans and Joy Reidenberg brave the baking desert to dissect a camel. They uncover the secret of the camel's hump and investigate how its elastic legs, stretchy lips and pedestal (a strange bump on its chest) are among the many surprising adaptations that enable the camel to thrive in such a dry and hostile environment. D

6:00 pm

NOVA scienceNOW"Where Did We Come From?"
Scientists show how a supernova shock wave, sweeping through a cloud of dust and gas, could have played a part in forming the sun and planets. An English chemist has created conditions in which building blocks of RNA, probable precursor to DNA, assemble themselves naturally. After sucking human blood for millions of years, the DNA of lice hold a treasure trove of clues to human evolution.G

7:00 pm

Inside Nature's Giants"Giant Squid"
This series shows experts performing dissection on some of nature's largest animals, including whales and lions. It attempts to uncover the secrets of the animals examined. Joy Reidenberg and Mark Evans fly out to New Zealand to join a team of experts and dissect a rare specimen of a giant squid and a bizarre octopus that inhabits the 'midnight zone' close to a mile deep, where there is no light at all. D

8:00 pm

Doha Debates, The
This House believes Turkey is a bad model for the new Arab states.G

8:48 pm

Ocularist
An ocular prosthetician unites the dexterity of a skilled craftsman with an artist's textural caress in his unique creations: custom acrylic eyes so vibrantly alive it seems a cruel twist of fate that they are unable to see. D

NOVA scienceNOW"Where Did We Come From?"
Scientists show how a supernova shock wave, sweeping through a cloud of dust and gas, could have played a part in forming the sun and planets. An English chemist has created conditions in which building blocks of RNA, probable precursor to DNA, assemble themselves naturally. After sucking human blood for millions of years, the DNA of lice hold a treasure trove of clues to human evolution.G